A mysterious fanged sea creature that washed up on a beach in Texas following Hurricane Harvey quickly went viral after images emerged on Twitter.

But what is it?

Click through photos of this mysterious sea creature

Preeti Desai came across the creature while walking along Texas City beach and posted images on Twitter to ask for help identifying it.

“Okay, biology twitter, what the heck is this?? Found on a beach in Texas City, TX,” Desai wrote on September 6.

Her request eventually found its way to biologist and eel specialist Dr. Kenneth Tighe, who told BBC there was a high probability the seemingly unidentifiable animal was either a fangtooth eel, a garden eel or a conger eel.